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NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $112 million contract to put lander on moon’s far side in ’26

The contract is part of Artemis program's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative— to deploy privately built lunar landers to study the moon's surface before people land there in future.

NASA’s Curiosity sends ‘clearest ever’ images of sun rays shining through Martian clouds

The sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, from the Latin word for 'twilight', were captured by Curiosity on 2 February, as the rays of the setting Sun lit up a bank of clouds.

Unusual circular sand dunes spotted on Mars & how a Jurassic-era insect made its way to Walmart

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

SpaceX rocket carries multinational crew toward space station, NASA confirms

The team will spend around 6 months on the ISS conducting more than 200 experiments like researching human cell growth in space & controlling combustible materials in microgravity.

SpaceX launches 4-person space station crew to orbit International Space Station for NASA

The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously operated Crew Dragon capsule called Endeavour, lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Potential alien life to ocean on Saturn’s moon — here are this week’s scientific revelations

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

James Webb telescope spots its first exoplanet — Earth-sized but may be ‘not Earth-like

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

2022’s biggest space stories: One giant leap for tourists & universe as you’ve never seen it

Indian private space sector saw series of missions & launches. Meanwhile, NASA carried out a successful planetary defence experiment by knocking an asteroid's moon off course.

NASA’s InSight rover prepares to join Mars’s robot graveyard — ‘may be last image I send’

Since it landed on Mars in 2018, InSight has detected over a thousand seismic events, with at least 50 of them providing signs clear enough to derive new information about the red planet.

Now we know what dust devils, mini-tornadoes on Mars, sound like. All thanks to Perseverance

Sound of surface storm, a frequent weather phenomenon on Mars, was recorded as it passed over NASA's Perseverance rover last year. Findings published in Nature Communications.

On Camera

India can’t fight Trump tariffs with emotion. Smart talks, sector relief, reforms are key

India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.

Amid Trump’s tariff bombs, India’s business with America surged while imports from Russia dipped 10%

As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?